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Anita B. Mozhaeva
Anita B. Mozhaeva, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at Foreign Literature Department of Maksim Gorky Institute of Literature and Creative Writing.
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Abstract:
The essay probes into particularities of Fielding’s play “Tom Thumb and The Tragedy of Tragedies”, his parody of Restoration tragedy; the latter was very popular with the theatregoers of the time. The essay shows how the heterogeneous stylistic elements of the play get united into a complete whole. Fielding seemed to believe that in order to truthfully capture a reality within a creative work, one has not to go against artistic conventionality, but to lean on it. There was just one problem left: to keep up this dynamic balance he achieved.
